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Sixty-Four Chance Pieces: A Book of Changes

Sixty-Four Chance Pieces: A Book of Changes

by WillBuckingham (Author)

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    Paperback 2015

    $20.46
Synopsis

The Chinese I Ching, or Book of Changes, is one of the oldest and strangest of all books, a masterpiece of world literature, a divination manual, and a magnet for the deranged and the obsessive. In Sixty-Four Chance Pieces, novelist and philosopher Will Buckingham puts the I Ching to work, using it to weave together 64 stories of chance and change, each flowing from one of the I Ching s 64 hexagrams. Moving between myth, fable, and travel writing, the collection offers an attempt to make sense of the maddening, changeable book that is the I Ching, with tales of inventors and fox-spirits, ancient poets and nonexistent rulers, kleptomaniac pensioners and infernal bureaucrats. Like the I Ching itself, this new Book of Changes is a puzzle, a conundrum, and a journey of many transformations, where nothing is quite what it seems.

$20.46

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10 in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 260
 Publisher: Earnshaw Books Limited
Published: 28 Sep 2015
ISBN 10: 9888273027
ISBN 13: 9789888273027

Media Reviews
Traveling without arriving, seeking without expectation of finding; Will Buckingham is a writer and philosopher of great humility and talent. Profoundly spiritual, entrancingly enigmatic, this is a magical book about the author s quest to understand the ancient Chinese art of divination and ultimately himself. Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang, author, The Woman Who Lost China
Author Bio
Will Buckingham is a novelist, philosopher, and children s author whose published works include Cargo Fever ; The Descent of the Lyre ; Finding Our Sea-Legs ; Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling ; and The Snorgh and the Sailor. He is a senior lecturer in creative writing at De Montfort University in Leicester, England.